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Jack Balas is an artist working in painting and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media.  A recipient in 1995 of an individual fellowship in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), the Tucson Museum of Art, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (Iowa), and the Kent & Vicki Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  A portfolio of his paintings "Today I Drove Along the Rio Grande" was published in issue #120 of The Paris Review (New York). His most recent museum solo was his 2008 project "We'll Be Seeing You" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.

This website includes a broad spectrum of the artwork divided into individual media in the above navigation bar. You can read an artist statement and get an overview of the work by taking a TOUR.  The newest painting and photo work is in the black area below, while a few other highlights from the past are in the adjacent gray.

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RECENT & COMING UP:   ________   SOLO SHOW L2 KONTEMPORARY Chinatown Los Angeles, CA November 20 -December 24, 2010   __________________   MADE IN TUCSON BORN IN TUCSON LIVE IN TUCSON Part 2 (group exhibition) Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ July 10- September 25 www.moca-tucson.org   _______________ NEW DRAWINGS, PRINTS and INTERVENTIONS 2010 _______________ Artist Profile & Painting OUT MAGAZINE June-July, 2009 __________________ "AMERICAN MALE" SOLO EXHIBITION EGO GALLERY BARCELONA, SPAIN January 29 - March 5, 2009 www.EgoGallery.ES See Installation Photos here. 40-page full-color catalog available     ______   Recent Reviews for: "WE'LL BE SEEING YOU" MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Denver, and "TATTOO DETOUR" Robischon Gallery: ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Saturday July 18th, 2008 Read Review Here WESTWORD July 17, 2008 Read Review Here ________	Current Paintings: 2010   _________________________________ _________________________________     TATTOO DETOUR 4: Honolulu Drawings 2010   (Early Reports)
The BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York City, has recently acquired two pieces from the MUSE / MUSEUM series for its permanent collection. __________________     CATALOG ESSAY for "DECADES OF INFLUENCE" and "EXTENDED REMIX" Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver "Artist and catalogue contributor Jack Balas captures the boom mood in his poetic essay about being a laborer for hire. His description of driving across the country as an art shipper in the 80's expresses the increasing vulnerability of the artist through a portrait of the landscape. Looking in the rearview mirror suggests that the 90's represented the point of no return for the contemporary art world." Cydney Payton, Executive Director / Chief Curator, MoCA Denver. _________________	Series: MUSE / MUSEUM New paintings
Cover Image for "How to Name a Hurricane" by Rane Arroyo University of Arizona Press In Bookstores Now ________________   inclusion in "SELF-EXPOSURE: THE MALE NUDE SELF-PORTRAIT" photo anthology by Reed Massengill, published by Rizzoli International, New York In bookstores now	"WE'LL BE SEEING YOU" : PROJECT AND SOLO EXHIBITION MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER (Summer, 2008)
highlights FROM THE ARCHIVE:		All contents of this site © 2002-09 by Jack Balas.
1990's PAINTINGS	STUD DUST A series of photographs A.K.A. "Studio Men"   x	THE BOYS IN THE BASEL Drawings from Art Basel 2009